New Elbow Album

The British band Elbow has a new album coming out in a couple of weeks. NPR Music is offering a free download of single "New York Morning."

Hundreds of songs have been written about New York City, and yet it's impossible to tire of new songs about it, especially one with a chorus that so perfectly sums up the city's simultaneous noise, brilliance, heartbreak and promise. Elbow frontman Guy Garvey delivers the song's sad-yet-hopeful perspective, informed by his recent time living in Brooklyn and inspired by the refuge John Lennon and Yoko Ono found in Manhattan. The story of another well-known New York couple, C.B.G.B. scenesters Dennis and Lois, make a moving ode to all that has gone and still remains. --Carmel Holt,